Tru Niagen vs Basis
As you’re reading this, there are mind-boggling advances being made in longevity and anti-aging. In fact, just a couple of years ago, scientists were able to reverse the age of mice by up to 40 years...
View ArticleSupplementation to increase NAD+ in lactating mice results in healthy,...
This study fed lactating mice Nicotinamide Riboside (NR) in chow for 21 days after birth of offspring to measure the effect on the health of their pups who did not receive any NR. After 21 days, the...
View ArticleDoes Dr Brenner make the case for sublingual NAD+ supplements in Natalie Eva...
I just listened to Dr Brenner’s podcast with Natalie Eva Marie where he talked about NR (Nicotinamide Riboside), how it relates to NAD+, and what it may mean for health in humans. Natalie and her...
View ArticleNicotinic Acid, Nicotinamide, and Nicotinamide Riboside: A Molecular...
This study by Dr Charles Brener published here in 2008. As schematized in Figure 1, the reason that a poor diet can produce a requirement for Na and Nam is that Trp, Na, and Nam are all NAD+...
View ArticleWhy NAD+ Declines during Aging: It’s Destroyed
NAD+ is required not only for life but for a long life. In this issue, Camacho-Pereira et al. (2016) implicate CD38 in the decline of NAD+ during aging, with implications for combating age-related...
View ArticleMitochondria in Aging, II: Remedies
The once-popular mitochondrial free radical theory of aging proved to be too glib. Aging isn’t fundamentally about dispersed damage; rather, dispersed damage is a result when the body’s defenses stand...
View ArticleDoes Basis still use Nicotinamide Riboside (NR) from Chromadex?
In 2012, Research published by Dr Sinclair of Harvard stunned researchers by showing that short term supplementation with Nicotinamide Mono-Nucleotide (NMN) reversed many aspects of aging, making the...
View ArticleBen Greenfield on NAD+
This is the transcript from Ben’s podcast you can listen to here: Ben: Hey folks, it’s Ben Greenfield, and I wanna tell you about an article I recently read in Scientific American. This article was...
View ArticleDoes NR break down to NAM before NAD+
As we age, our levels of the Co-enzyme Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide NAD+ drop significantly in multiple organs in mice and humans (5,8,10). NAD+ decrease is described as a trigger in...
View ArticleNicotinamide Riboside Reprograms Aging Stem Cells
A study published in the leading academic journal Science in April 2016 showed that supplementation of aged mice with nicotinamide riboside, a form of vitamin B3, resulted in both increased lifespan...
View ArticleNMN or NR
As we age, our levels of the Co-enzyme Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide NAD+ drop significantly in multiple organs in mice and humans (5,8,10). NAD+ decrease is described as a trigger in...
View ArticleNicotinamide Riboside Optimum Dosage
Nicotinamide Riboside (NR) is a form of vitamin B3 closely related to Niacin that is showing great promise for it’s ability to raise NAD+ levels in older humans, back to the levels normally found in...
View ArticleIs Basis by Elysium Health a Hoax?
The main ingredient in Elysium Health’s Basis is Nicotinamide Riboside (NR) Elysium Health is only one of several companies selling Nicotinamide Riboside. Their main selling point is the 6 Nobel Prize...
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